All 7 Uses of
acute
in
Pride and Prejudice
- The advice was followed readily, for the feverish symptoms increased, and her head ached acutely.†
Chpt 7 *
- You dare not, you cannot deny, that you have been the principal, if not the only means of dividing them from each other—of exposing one to the censure of the world for caprice and instability, and the other to its derision for disappointed hopes, and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind.†
Chpt 34
- But I shall not scruple to assert, that the serenity of your sister's countenance and air was such as might have given the most acute observer a conviction that, however amiable her temper, her heart was not likely to be easily touched.†
Chpt 35
- But when this subject was succeeded by his account of Mr. Wickham—when she read with somewhat clearer attention a relation of events which, if true, must overthrow every cherished opinion of his worth, and which bore so alarming an affinity to his own history of himself—her feelings were yet more acutely painful and more difficult of definition.†
Chpt 36
- The dear Colonel rallied his spirits tolerably till just at last; but Darcy seemed to feel it most acutely, more, I think, than last year.†
Chpt 37
- Elizabeth, who had expected to find in her as acute and unembarrassed an observer as ever Mr. Darcy had been, was much relieved by discerning such different feelings.†
Chpt 44
- The mischief of neglect and mistaken indulgence towards such a girl—oh! how acutely did she now feel it!†
Chpt 46
Definition:
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(acute as in: acute pain) sharp (severe or strong) -- usually negative